[2] Today, Kneesworth is an acute hospital owned by The Priory Group, a subsidiary of Acadia Healthcare headquartered in Tennessee.

Lt. Charles Etherlston Nightingale, 11th Bart (1784–1843), sold a significant majority of the portfolio including the rights to Kneesworth Hall in 1814 and 1831, which totalled 897 acres.

By this time, the estate had close to 200 acres of land, with 9 cottages and a mill house, including the mansion itself.

Following a Court Case against the County service a fund was set up to pay off the victims at the rate of thirty thousand pounds each.

When one of the boys would try to expose the activities of Laverack et al, the school would dispatch a social worker to try to provide a cover story to the child's parents.

Sexual abuse in Approved Schools was common place, and assessment centres, such as Redhill, another Home Office institution, were used to direct vulnerable children to the pedophiles.